Friday, August 22, 2008

Off to a good start.

You know your day's off to a good start when it begins with having to stroll through a hotel lobby with your Louis Vuitton plastic Kroger bag of girlie toiletries that you left in the trunk of your car last night.

There's scene in the movie M*A*S*H where several stars are shown passing a joint. Have you ever noticed that?

As a teen, I worried about what other teens thought about me. As an adult, I realized that teens are all too worried about themselves to even notice other teens; I rarely did.

People probably walk through hotel lobbies all the time with all sorts of strange things. Ever notice any of them?

Don't worry; unless you carefully call attention to yourself, everybody is too concerned with the embarrassing personal items in their own possession to notice yours.

(Yeah, that's what I tell myself. But in practice...

(In practice, one day I was riding my bike, when all of a sudden a girl, who looked to be about eight years old, leaned out of a second story window and hollered at me, "Hey mister! Your dick's hanging out!" I looked down, and nearly lost control when I saw she was right! Then I realized it was just the horn of my brown leather bicycle seat....)

I once rolled into The Plaza with some natural sweethearts from Kentucky just after they'd won a Grammy for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (1990). One of the other guys on the crew was a homie from down the holler, and I swear to god that I watched that man check in to one of the world's premier hotels with his wardrobe in a brown paper sack. Crumpled, it was. (The sack.)

Very trendy, Tam. You're living green, recycling a plastic bag, reducing the release of toxic chemicals into the environment, and perhaps saving the life of a baby seal who might have choked on the discarded bag.

Wow them at Blackhawk. Best wishes to you and the other blogger attendees.